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Tinkering

by Curt Gabrielson
September 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
268 pages
7h 4m
English
Make: Community
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Foreword

Dale Dougherty, 2013

Tom Wolfe wrote a feature article in the December 1983 issue of Esquire magazine called “The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce.” Wolfe tells the very American story of a young man who grew up in Grinnell, Iowa, where he went to college before going on to MIT for graduate school. After school, Noyce headed to California in 1956 where he would invent the electronic future as a co-founder of Intel and shape what we now call the Silicon Valley.

Wolfe points out that Noyce had a typical Midwestern upbringing. He was a curious boy and a good athlete. When he was 13, he and his brothers read an article in Popular Science about a box kite that could lift a person off the ground. Noyce and his brothers set out to build and test that ...

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